Though the overall quality of medical care available in the United States is very high, health care professionals occasionally provide substandard care to their patients, either through carelessness or incompetence. This is known as medical malpractice, and unfortunate victims risk injury, illness, and even wrongful death as a result.

At Fox, Goldblatt & Singer, P.C. in St. Louis, Missouri, our legal staff represents medical malpractice and birth injury victims with genuine concern for their well-being. The medical malpractice lawyers at our firm have achieved numerous notable successes in medical malpractice litigation since we opened our doors in 1949.

If you reside in and around St. Louis County and St. Charles County in Missouri, as well as Madison County and St. Clair County in Illinois, you can count on the area’s most reliable medical malpractice lawyers. Our medical negligence attorneys have helped thousands of people, and we can help you too. Call our law firm today at (877) 858-4699 or contact us online.

• General Medical Malpractice

 

General Medical Malpractice

Medical malpractice takes place when a medical professional – a doctor, nurse, or pharmacist, for instance – provides care that does not meet the commonly accepted standards for safety and quality. Surgical injuries, medication errors and mistaken diagnoses are examples of medical malpractice that could be grounds for litigation. When any of these cases occurs, the results may be life-threatening to the unsuspecting patient.

Preventable medical malpractice may lead to unnecessary delays in treatment, additional injuries, disfigurement, or disability. Many patients will need to undergo longer, more involved treatment, potentially including additional surgeries, longer hospital stays, or extra courses of medication, all because medical professionals made unacceptable mistakes. The risk of injury or death associated with undergoing additional treatment is very real, and more involved treatment will involve added expenses.

These costs should not be borne by the medical malpractice victim. Instead, our attorneys will litigate aggressively in order to hold medical professionals responsible for their errors. Those injured by the negligence of a medical professional in St. Louis, Florissant, Chesterfield, University City, Clayton, O'Fallon, St. Charles, St. Peters, St. Louis County and St. Charles County, MO, and throughout Alton, Belleville, Madison County and St. Clair County, IL can discuss their cases with the medical malpractice attorneys at our firm. Our legal team will determine how best to seek repayment if a client has been subjected to undue risk, pain and suffering, injuries or excessive bills due to substandard care.

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Birth Injury

Birth injury is a particularly troubling example of medical malpractice. Our birth injury attorneys have handled litigation for many families profoundly affected by substandard medical care during childbirth and the serious injuries it can cause.

Some of the most frequently discussed birth injuries include nerve damage and brain damage resulting in cerebral palsy, Erb’s palsy, and similar conditions. Conditions such as these cause motor control problems and other physical impairments. The cost of raising a child with cerebral palsy to adulthood has been estimated at near $1 million. The costs associated with many other birth injuries are not far behind.

However, the real tragedy of a preventable birth injury caused by medical malpractice is the effect that injury has on a child's growth, development, and on his or her entire life. Many of these children might have grown up healthy if they had received proper care as infants. Instead, these children face long-term disabilities, pain and a lifetime of expensive medical treatments simply because their health care professional acted improperly.

If your child has been injured in any way during or immediately after birth, our birth injury lawyers and medical malpractice attorneys are waiting to help you obtain compensation. At Fox, Goldblatt & Singer, P.C., we have successfully represented many Missouri and Illinois families in birth injury litigation, including St. Louis, Florissant, Chesterfield, University City, Clayton, O'Fallon, St. Charles, St. Peters, St. Louis County and St. Charles County, MO, and throughout Alton, Belleville, Madison County and St. Clair County, IL, and we may be able to help your family as well.

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Contact Our Medical Malpractice Attorneys

The prospect of medical malpractice is unpleasant, but our attorneys have helped many victims recover compensation to cover associated costs. If you or a loved one has suffered injury at the hands of a careless medical professional, call the medical malpractice lawyers at Fox, Goldblatt & Singer, P.C. today at (877) 858-4699 or contact us online for a case evaluation.

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